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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1956
Page
2
A chaotic school column covers exams and vacation lauds student progress in multiple subjects. It notes faculty institutes, upcoming plays and film showings, a football game against Waukon, a nature show, and a mystery drama. It mentions immunization surveys and vaccine courses.
The text shows a weekly menu with days Monday and Wednesday featuring boxed beans, chicken sandwiches, apples, desserts, milk, mashed potatoes, pork, cabbage salad, ice, and sandwiches. On Wednesday additional items include goulash, oranges, prunes, pickles, sauce macaroni and cheese, glorified rice, and peanuts.
A school notes various class activities and staff mentions. Students practice multiplication and division and renew dental cards. Halloween art, a reading quiz, and a Twenty Questions game are described. Birthdays are celebrated. staff events include a hostes event and a gymnasium concert. several students and teachers are named with dates and places.
In history class the sixth grade studies the Greens and American adoption of ideas like bark ing and coinage. In science the class makes Prefistome papier mache aromals while the pups look forward to painting. On October 12 the eighth committee presents the gray recounting Portugal. New desks arrive for library tables and citndey treats arrive from Lois Kerr and Randy Miles on October 23.
Elgin reports George Dorsey and Liane, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cha, and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Denne as supper guests Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Joan Wood of Prairie A.
Dairymen must install refrigeration to rapid cool milk within two hours even in cold weather. Many farmers assume cold outside temperatures suffice, but interior cooling remains essential to maintain high quality winter milk.
The Garner school band earned its fourth consecutive Division I rating at the marching band contest held in Charles City, marking another strong showing for the ensemble.
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